Because of the Haldane ruling.
The Hadane ruling last year said that 'sex' wasn't limited to biological sex in Scottish law. A Scottish GRC changes your legal sex for all purposes.
Currently, under the Equality Act, transwomen with or without a GRC can be excluded from single sex services if appropriate and legitimate because their sex is male. Not all service suppliers choose to use these exemptions but they can if they wish.
If someone's sex is changed for all legal purposes, and your biological sex no longer counts, on what grounds would you exclude someone? It would be sex discrimination to do so in Scotland because 'sex' no longer means biological sex.
"For single sex services and jobs, where the exceptions do apply, the judgment means the holder of a GRC that certifies them as female can only be excluded based on gender reassignment, not on their sex,
even though their biological sex is the reason for their exclusion. This makes using these exceptions more complex and daunting".
https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.or...-the-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill/
It puts more pressure on service providers to not use the EA exemptions in case they are sued.
Can I get clarification on which country is actually being talked about.
@monkers post about Limerick Prison was queried by
@icowden, who referred to Limerick Prison, and the two trans women prisoners currently held there. It could be three, if one hasn't been released, raising concerns about possible legal challenges about not so new gender recognition laws in the Irish Republic. As pointed out by
@multitool they aren't that new, at over seven years on the Irish law books.
@Bromptonaut queries the point raised by ICowden and takes the issue back to Scotland, closely followed by AuroraSaab jumping in with the Haldane ruling or Hadane ruling. We then have
@AuroraSaab saying that three trans women prisoners in Limerick Prison are having to be escorted because they are a danger to other prisoners in the same wing. The only one mentioned as having an prison officer escort in the links provided is in Dublin Prison. The escort is for her safety. Odd in a way that the other prisoners are the threat but never mentioned as such.
One in Limerick is in isolation due to an attack on a prison worker. The trial continues, however we are treated to what one says she'd do to her mother she hasn't seen since the age of 10. She's now twenty. GRC given at the age of 16, by a court
The Irish courts have decided where these women were to be housed, the Irish prison service are just complying with orders made by the courts.
As has been said, Limerick prison isn't a very nice place. Due in part to its age, over 100 years in parts still being used to house prisoners. With parts over 200 years old.
We are then back into the English prison system, whilst still going on about the three or two in Limerick having to be escorted around for the safety of others for the one hour they are out off their cells.
Maybe we can stick to one country, and not dragging other countries into the argument, just to support an argument about another country's system. Making it clear which country we feel is at fault.
I'm still awaiting my question answering with regards where the number of trans women in Irish prisons has been gained. Neither the Irish prison service, or the state, keep such figures. So where are they coming from? These numbers never stay the same either, or are they always reported as being in the correct prison. Can similar figures be supplied for trans men in Irish prisons?
Dublin and Limerick are only 135 miles apart.